I have put together some little puzzle activities for the classroom. These are the first four, and there will be lots more to come. These first puzzles simply have basic sight words on them. They are themed for spring. There are many ways you can use these little puzzles. You can have them baggied up for kids to do when they are finished with their work, or you can have them available in a literacy center. The kids can work individually or with a partner. You can get all the details for each puzzle product in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

My students love geometry, and I do too. I wanted to share a couple of fun activities we did recently. For sarters, they got to design a net and then turn it into the 3-D figure. You probably have these outlines in your math teacher resource books. Here are a couple of samples.

Next, they were able to build 3-D figures using marshmallows and toothpicks. They always love this activity. I will include a picture, and then there is a link to the skill sheet I made to go along with the activity. You can get this from my Teachers Pay Teachers store. On this sheet, they write the vertices, edges, and faces for the figures they build. Your students will love this!

Looking for a spring themed game board? How 'bout trying this one. It's FREE, and you can use it in your classroom with your own creative game ideas. Although it has Easter eggs, it is not too Eastery for school (since Easter is a religious holiday). Just print, laminate in a file folder, and you are good to go. Click the link below to download.

When my blogging buddy, Yvonne, over at Sassy in Second asked if I wanted to participate in her give away, the answer was YES! I know, I just did my own little give away, but who cares!! FREE is good, right? So, join in the fun and try to win this awesome package of goodies.﻿

All you have to do is follow each blog and tpt store! Leave a note on each blog with your name and contact information.

Click HERE to see the details about the 8 wonderful products that will be given away.

Good luck!

Share the Sweetness!

Thank you for helping to spread the word about Classroom Confections.﻿

We appreciate you 'liking' us on facebook, tweeting about us, or pinning us on Pinterest.

For more fun and creative ideas for the classroom, click the above picture to go to my store.

I put together a fun and easy dice game for the three types of triangles. It is a B*a*S*i*C game, but it serves the purpose of reinforcing these three triangles. Yes, I know you can have an acute, right, and obtuse triangle, too, but this game doesn't cover those. Oh well.

This will work perfectly as a math center activity.

If you would like to try it with your students, print it for FREE. Just click below.

*** Update on Give Away.... I ended up sending out both games to all those that participated by the deadline. If you did not get the games it is because you did not post your email or I overlooked your email. Please leave me another comment with your email and I will send them to you. Thanks again for participating, and I hope your students enjoy!!***

4 Winners!!

What do you win?

2 St. Patrick's Day themed file folder games.

Subtraction File Folder Game

Addition File Folder Game

_____________________________________

There are 4 ways to enter the 4-Leaf Clover Contest

1) Follow our blog or let us know you already follow the blog.

2) "Like" our facebook page and then do a brief status update on this contest.

3) "Pin" this contest on Pinterest.

4) Write a blog post about this contest on your blog and leave a link back to your blog.

Oh, and if 4 is not enough... you can have one more entry by

5) Following our TpT store. :-)

_________________________________________

Here is the important part...

For every entry you need to leave a SEPARATE comment under THIS blog post. If you enter one time, you will leave one comment. If you do all 5, you will leave 5 comments. Each comment is an entry, which will then have a number designated to it.

Also, don't forget to leave your email address on one of the posts.

Entries will be taken until 2:30 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 14. Winning numbers will be selected by using the site http://www.random.org/, and the winners will be posted and files emailed shortly after.

Remember, 4 winners will be picked.

Good luck!

Share the Sweetness!

Thank you for helping to spread the word about Classroom Confections.﻿

We appreciate you 'liking' us on facebook, tweeting about us, or pinning us on Pinterest.

For more fun and creative ideas for the classroom, click the above picture to go to my store.

We have spent the last couple of weeks studying figurative language, and my students have had so much fun. It really is a fun topic to teach! One of our class activities has been the making of a figurative language mini book. As a new type of figurative language was introduced, the students added the definition, example, and an illustration to their booklet. I don't know about your kids, but mine always like to make little books.

We have covered many types of figurative language, but one activity in particular I wanted to share with you is on Idioms. Are you familiar with the books My Mama Likes to Say, My Teacher Likes to Say, and My Daddy Likes to Say by Denise Brennan-Nelson? If not, you have got to use them when you cover Idioms. Plus, I found a great packet to go along with idioms that was put out by the publisher of the books. It's free, so click HERE to get that.

In my store, I also have resources to go along with your figurative language unit.

Here is a set of figurative language posters. I use these to project on the SmartBoard when introducing a new type of figurative language. You could easily just print them out and use them for display on a bulletin board.

The picture below is an alliteration number line. Each students was given a number, and they had to write an alliteration that went along with the beginning sound of the number they were given. They looked really cute hanging in order out in the hallway. I also hung some other examples of alliteration around the posters.

Share the Sweetness!

Thank you for helping to spread the word about Classroom Confections.﻿

We appreciate you 'liking' us on facebook, tweeting about us, or pinning us on Pinterest.

For more fun and creative ideas for the classroom, click the above picture to go to my store.

If you are like me, you are always looking for ways to integrate the subjects of social studies and science into your reading and writing activities. We have been studying Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Of course, Sacagawea was along for a good portion of the trip, too. Because we know so much about their journey due to the journals they kept, I thought it would be neat for the kids to write from the perspective of one of the three people and recount some of the adventures, discoveries, and hardships they faced. Plus, I found the coolest extra-large journal-looking paper at the Dollar Store, so it made for a fun activity. Even fourth graders love it when you pull out cool writing paper! Most wrote more than would fit on the journal paper, so they had to write some on notebook paper and staple it to the journal sheet.They look great hanging out in the hall. Here is a peek

Share the Sweetness!

Thank you for helping to spread the word about Classroom Confections.﻿

We appreciate you 'liking' us on facebook, tweeting about us, or pinning us on Pinterest.

For more fun and creative ideas for the classroom, click the above picture to go to my store.